ENERGY TRANSITION, FOOL'S CRUTCH?In the field of ecology, the energy transition is one of the main topics discussed at lengths of COPs. Will our societies be able to switch from a fossil fuel regime to a new model based on renewable energies?In French with English subtitles.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO0r5O4-2wU

In this video, you are not going to see an interview of the winner of the marathon. Vasudev and usman are probably wondering what is the point of this video then. I guess you will learn what is the best way to become obese.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAN8Fs-4AQ8

Some users are probably thinking that the photo below is depicting a lion. Maybe Vasudev and Usman are recognizing one of their neighbours. To know what it is, watch the video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph1hxhwWa2Q

I'm adding another new video, in French, with this lecture of Laurent Mermet. He died last June at 64 and was one of the most prominent specialists of environment.In this video, Laurent Mermet discusses the interventions that Aurélien Barrau has made over the last few months to warn about the urgent need to act in the face of the ecological crisis.The focus of the conference is on the ideas for collective actions that underlie these calls to action.Between calls to governments to take their responsibilities, citizen mobilization in a conflict of interest groups, perspective of a revolution of our models of society, the courses of action are based on heterogeneous and contradictory reasoning.The conference also analyzes how the repression of the distributive, where we reason as if humanity were a united and unitary actor, and where the question of the winners and the losers of the crises and mutations is avoided, leads to important blind spots when it comes to thinking collective action in the face of ecological urgency.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1JRYlrLxvw

I didn't see the entire video but from the onset it's clear that the tone is very anti-nuclear. For starters, they called the nuclear plant in Normandy a "blot on the landscape". This is highly prejudicial and their fears are unfounded.

Nowhere does anybody mention that the disaster in Chernobyl happened primarily because there was no containment building. In 1976 there was a partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania (USA), and nobody felt anything - the concrete containment building did its job. Nuclear plants do not emit any CO₂ unlike their coal an oil-burning counterparts and therefore do not contribute to climate change. Some (but not all) nuclear waste can be reprocessed. The one that isn't is safely put away. There's still plenty of room to put it, but much before space runs out rest assured someone will figure out where to dispose of it, or even how we can actually reuse it. In France all nuclear plants are standardized. Parts are easy to obtain and engineers can move back and forth between plants with no learning curve. I even saw on a documentary towns in anti-nuclear Italy buying their power from France. When asked, they responded "cheaper to buy it from France than generate it ourselves". Hipocrisy in it's highest form!

Amid protests, Lebanon's Hariri sets deadline to resolve crisisPrime Minister Saad Hariri set on Friday a three-day ultimatum for his political rivals to unite and fix Lebanon's dire economy, as tens of thousands of anti-government protesters rallied across the country for a second day.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9ISg-RWY0w